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May 2

Creating A Cooldown System in Unity

Objective: Create a cooldown system for firing in Unity. Note: If you are unfamiliar with how to set up a firing system, or would like to see how I set up the one used in this article, look at this article: https://medium.com/@garrettgroenewold/instantiating-destroying-gameobjects-in-unity-cddb6a094b28 You’ve set up laser fire for your player…

Unity

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Creating A Cooldown System in Unity
Creating A Cooldown System in Unity

Apr 26

Instantiating & Destroying Gameobjects in Unity

Objective: Create an object in Unity, and set the object to destroy itself once it reaches a certain point. When making a game, there are a lot of objects that we only want to exist as needed, such as projectiles. So we’ll want to be able to create and destroy…

Unity

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Instantiating & Destroying Gameobjects in Unity
Instantiating & Destroying Gameobjects in Unity

Apr 25

Variables! — The building blocks of programming

Objective: Understand what a variable is, and why you should use them. Programming uses a lot of data. As such we need to organize that data. The most simple way we have to do that is variables. Variables are a core of aspect of programming. It’s the primary way that…

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Apr 24

Simple Player Movement in Unity

Objective: Set up a Player token to move freely along a two dimensional plane. Movement is pretty universal across games. While there are exceptions, in most games, your player needs a way to move. Here, we’ll be going over how do that on along the X and Y-axis. I’ll also…

Unity

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Simple Player Movement in Unity
Simple Player Movement in Unity

Apr 18

More Productive Editor Layout in Unity

Objective: Set up Unity in a more productive layout. The default layout for Unity is workable, but I find it to be just a little clunky. Fortunately, Unity gives you a lot of leeway in how you can set up the editor. The way I have been shown, and would…

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More Productive Editor Layout in Unity
More Productive Editor Layout in Unity

Apr 15

Installing Unity & Getting Started with Game Development

Objective: Install Unity, and create a new project. Getting started with game development is a pretty daunting task. I know, it took me a while to do it myself. I always find it easier to break down these sorts of things into smaller sections. …

Unity

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Installing Unity & Getting Started with Game Development
Installing Unity & Getting Started with Game Development

Apr 13

Setting up git with Unity

Objective: Set up a new Unity project and link it to a correlating GitHub repository. For this, we use Git Bash, which is a shell program that uses Git command line. The first step, is to create our Unity project. …

Unity

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Setting up git with Unity
Setting up git with Unity
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